Cemetery
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Poperinghe Communal Cemetery
The first victims of the casualty clearing stations in Poperinge were buried in the municipal graveyard. Poperinge was a relatively safe place and held by British troops during the whole war. In...
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Mendinghem Military Cemetery
The first burial on Mendinghem Cemetery took place in August 1916 after a field hospital was installed in June. It was located close to the railway to Proven. The cemetery contains 2442 victims of...
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Commonwealth military Cemetery Lijssenthoek
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is the impressive witness of more than four years of war violence. From 1915 until 1920 the hamlet of Lijssenthoek became the venue for the biggest evacuation...
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Gwalia Cemetery
A hop farm, located about five kilometers from the front, was claimed by the British soldiers and called 'Gwalia Farm', after a place in Wales. From the end of June 1917, a 'Field Ambulance' was...
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Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery
The 'Poperinghe Old Military Cemetry' was created in October 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres. Commonwealth kills were buried there until the beginning of May 1915. After a typhoid epidemic...
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Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery
This cemetery was assigned in July 1917 to the 62nd and 63rd Casualty Clearing Stations. Four British plots were built; four French on the western side and one plot for German prisoners of war in...
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Reninghelst New Military Cemetery
Reninghelst was located in the British sector from autumn 1914 till the end of the war. This cemetery was used from November 1915 and contains victims from 8 different countries.
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Grootebeek British Cemetery
In April 1918 a new cemetery originates near a hamlet called Ouderdom. The cemetery is called Grootebeek because of the small river Grootebeek or Groote Kemmelbeek which flows next to the cemetery....
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Nine Elms British Cemetery
In this cemetery along the Helleketelweg are buried 1615 victims, 1593 of them killed in the Great War and about 20 victims and 2 unidentified casualties from the 2nd World War.
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Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
The Poperinge New Military Cemetery was in use as of April 1915. This cemetery holds a sad record: 17 executed soldiers are buried here; the total number of casualties in this cemetery amounts to...
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Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery
The Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery is named after the nearby airport "Abeele Airfield", but has nothing to do with it. The "Abeele Aerodrome" cemetery was first used by French troops during the...
